August 2013

Extraordinarily talented photographer and filmmaker Shawn Reeder has released a new timelapse piece, turning from Yosemite, the subject of his...

I spend quite a bit of time above 12 thousand feet, and one of my favorite stomping grounds are the...

Ricoh has just introduced several new products to the PENTAX brand. First is the HD PENTAX DA Limited lens series,...

Today’s Photo Of The Day comes from Mike Sherman who submitted this image to the Fall Color Assignment. The photo...

Every year we are fortunate to have short eared owls travel through the region. For most wildlife photographers, owls are...

Pat Sotherlund's photo of Panther Creek Falls captures the essence of the beautiful Columbia River Gorge area in Washington.

Congratulations to Tom Barnwell for his winning photo in the Iconic Locations Assignment. Barnwell was attending a Jack Dykinga workshop in 2010 when he took this photo.

Not unfamiliar to sports enthusiasts, the Thule brand has traditionally focused on accessories ranging from bike racks and roof boxes...

Douglas Dietiker's Autumn At Elowah inspired the new Green Assignment.

Back lit scene from Indian Peaks Wilderness by Michael Vanbeber is today's photo of the day.

Congratulations to Nelson Landry for his winning shot in the Extreme Telephoto Assignment. Landry's photo was taken in 1989 with a Nikon FM2 film camera, Tamron lens and Kodachrome 64 film!

The Silver Fire erupted mid-afternoon this last Wednesday, August 7th in the San Jacinto Mountains south of Banning, California. Two...

The medium of photography has always confused the tool with the actual talent and craft. Every photographer has a story about showing a favorite photo and getting the question, "what kind of camera did you use?" The leap of logic is that the photographer didn't take the picture, the camera did. In the iPhone era it's become prevalent to take this same notion in a bizarre new direction.

There are fewer creatures on this planet that have the ability to boast such a fierceness simultmaneously coupled with a...

Nelson Landry's striking photo was submitted to the Extreme Telephoto Assignment. Landry used a Tokina 400mm lens on his Nikon camera.

As you’re shooting on the beach, mountain side or among dewy autumn leaves, it’s important to have a landing pad...

Today's Photo Of The Day by Tom Mckelvey is a good example of using a long focal length to get create a compressed scene. He sent the photo to the Extreme Telephoto Assignment. In this case, Mckelvey was forced into his choice of lens because of his position on a ship that was some distance form the shoreline.

Bruce Wendler's example of using extreme focal length to compress a landscape scene is today's photo of the day.

(© Ian Plant) A reader recently asked for a recommendation for a good travel photo bag, something that could carry...

Fall color can be overwhelming and the task we face as photographers is to distill a scene down to the minimum number of elements to fully convey that scene. To paraphrase Reverend Maclean the film A River Runs Through It, the art of photography is in thrift.